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Under the Freedom of Information Act, a federal judge ruled the State Department needed to review approximately 1,000 emails before Election Day, then release them in four batches. About 600 emails which were in accordance with FOIA standards will be made public.

Periodic releases of emails and other documents are expected to continue through 2018.

While serving as secretary of state, Clinton deleted around 30,000 emails from a private server, claiming they were not work-related. After a long investigation, FBI Director James Comey eventually came to decide that Clinton committed no crimes by having a private email server.

Of those 30,000 emails, the FBI found that 110 messages in 52 email chains contained classified information.

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“Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification,” Comey said in July.

In the same speech, Comey would later go on to recommend that the Department of Justice not pursue charges against Clinton.

“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” he added.

“In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts,” Comey said. “All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.”

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Comey would later re-open the investigation in October, causing a huge uproar among Democrats who believed the decision was reckless and the timing — 11 days before the presidential election — was horrible.

Clinton’s top pollster believes it was Comey who ultimately handed the election to Donald Trump.

“We were winning this campaign,” pollster Joel Benenson told former senior White House adviser David Axelrod. “We came out of the third debate consolidating our lead … and we get to 11 days out and the director of the FBI takes an unprecedented action and throws a monkey wrench into the campaign that you couldn’t have anticipated.”